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    Sold FREE Colony available (BS35 1RJ)

    FREE to collect, all the WBC brood frames are free to go but not the brood box (happy to swap one if collection is easier with the bees staying in the brood box or transfer into a nuc to take away?). I believe this is a healthy colony which was recently re-queened from a docile hive but they...
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    Recovering a Failed 'Re-Queen'

    Hello all, I need a little advice please after failing miserably to requeen my two hives. For reasons I shan't go into here, one hive was preparing to swarm making queen cells and the second in need of a better/friendlier queen, so lifted the nice queen into a nuc and 'managed' the other two...
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    Can Bees Clean Away Mould?

    Hello, I am delighted that both my hives look like they survived the winter, my first hive is looking very well indeed. The second hive was a rather week nuc late summer last year, it only had 3 busy frames so I'm pleased it made it through winter at all. However, I think all that extra space...
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    Pollen Frenzy - What's Going On?!

    Hello again, I was wondering if anyone can tell me what's so exciting about the underside of one of my two hives, exciting because it had the bees, wasps and even some scary fat hornets all wanting in on the action: Sorry about the rubbish photo but it's tricky taking photos with thick...
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    Varroa in 'Complacent Numbers'

    Hello, I'm nearing the end of my first season, started with one hive in June but because opportunity presented itself I acquired a second in August. I did regular checks and the first hive in particular did really well with lovely calm bees who kindly 'gave' me 9 litres of honey. the second...
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    Wasps or Ventilation?

    Hello, I need a little help please as my bees appear to be trying to cool the hive by hanging around the entrance which I’ve narrowed considerably: The problem is there are wasps all around the place so I narrowed the entrance a while back to make defending easier. I was just out plugging...
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    Always Syrup a Nuc?

    Hello. I'm trying to avoid a repeat of my initial beekeeping experience. On receipt of my first (ever) nuc I did as instructed by the seller and used syrup. It was a very small nuc (3 frames) and mid-June so plenty of forage, the result was a massive amount of stores and a need to move things...
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    Lots of Brood Stores?

    Hello, Based on feedback in another thread I might have taken delivery of a small nuc three weeks ago. Undeterred I popped on a syrup feeder and the hive has grown really well. They have drawn 7-8 frames and working hard on all but the two outer most, so I've removed the syrup feeder (as it was...
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    Oldbury Naite Apiary

    Hello! This is my second post on the 'BKF' having had a little, and slightly embarrassing, panic about nothing in only my first two weeks of bee keeping 🤫 I have been threatening to start bee keeping for a few years and after attending a courses last year with refresher a few weeks ago, I took...
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    Mouldy Multicolour Comb!?

    Hello, I think I might be getting off to a rather bad start to my keeping. I received my nuc two weeks ago, it is my first ever nuc/bees so I am very much a newbie but still I think I might be somewhat unlucky to find myself here asking for help before I have even posted an introduction in the...
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